As Russia’s prosecutorial bulldozer plods its way through the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, another trial is getting underway across town, which oddly makes the former seem relatively open, at least by Russian standards. Some o...
This is another example why, at least in fiscal terms, Kudrin is more credible than other members of the Russian government: “I don’t think any new unions of currencies will appear any time soon,” Kudrin said in a panel discussio...
Although the St. Petersburg Economic Forum was a little soured this year by the doldrums of the crisis and the humbling of global capitalism, the Russian government still closed the show with a bang with President Dmitry Medvedev promising a rapid...
Today Paul Goble is blogging about the Russian strategy to discourage Islamic extremism from flourishing in its cities – which also appears to include a ban on the establishment of any new mosques. The result of this idea, Goble notes,...
Though it doesn’t own the headlines like it used to, the political crisis in Moldova continues unabated, and deserves greater international attention. Here Arcadie Barbarosie and Igor Botan from Chisinau make the case for a U.S. role i...
Ukraine has apparently paid its May gas bill and expects an apology from Moscow about aspersions casts upon its ability to pay for gas supplies. Medvedev has counseled Ukraine to not look ‘offended’ when asked about insolvency bu...
At his speech at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, President Medvedev warned against over-optimism regarding the crisis, but also added that Russia has ‘overcome its problems more quickly than had perhaps been expected’....
TODAY: Kremlin downplays hopes of START breakthrough; Belarus won’t offer political support for money; Gorbachev argues need for perestroika on global level; Putin playing to the crowd, Medvedev left in the wings?; Litvinenko suspect to sit ...
The New York Times has a cool profile of Russian journalist Sergei Kanev, who fearlessly covers the crime beat for Novaya Gazeta: Bit by bit, in the Vladimir V. Putin era, the ranks of people willing to hold the powerful to account are thinning. T...
Mikhail Gorbachev has some advice for the United States in today’s Washington Post (also see Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s very similar “global perestroika“): Elements of such a model already exist in some countries. Having reject...
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